Setting goals for specific tasks is an important part of improving. Periodically retesting those tasks is key to checking up on your achievement. Sometimes when we retest we find that we have improved, but fell short of our goal. This may or may not be a time to re-evaluate our strategies over the previous months. It may also be time to check in about your expectations for improvement. Sometimes we do set realistic goals but we place them on unrealistic time frames. If this is the case for you, be patient and keep working at it.